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Larry Ray Swearingen, Sr. was sentenced to death on July 11, 2000 for the 1998 kidnapping, rape and murder of Melissa Trotter, a 19-year-old college student from Montgomery County, Texas. DNA testing and forensic science conclusively proves Swearingen was in the county jail for outstanding traffic warrants for at least two weeks before the victim died. There are no co-defendants.
While the number of forensic experts grow affirming the affidavits, testimonies and statements prior given by numerous other forensic scientists, the State of Texas has not released this man from death row yet, instead given two execution dates in January 2007 and January 2009.
The prior precedent, Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993), created a public outcry when a slim majority, under Chief Justice Rehnquist, held that the 8th Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment would not be violated by executing a person who could show actual innocence but was procedurally barred from another review of their conviction.
To get a better understanding of this case, read both columns by Lisa Falkenberg from the Houston Chronicle, “Inmate deserves his day in court“ and “Innocent on death row? Texas might listen“, and the article “The Science of Murder“ by Mike Hall from Texas Monthly.
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